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I used to have a similarly priced Withings smartwatch clone; worked very well for years until I switched to a new phone and the app turned out to be gone from the store and the log in servers were offline. Without the app you can't get notifications or even sync the time and the watch is useless. Yes, well-known brands also discontinue software, but with a cheap watch like this, it's almost guaranteed to become a paperweight in a few years.

Now I have a real Withings, at 10 times the price of the fake, it honestly offers only a marginally better experience.

Living was always expensive, in developing countries, goods are still expensive but so is living. Save for subsistence farmers, but those are a minority in all but the poorest countries.

High 5 figure salaries can bribe ethics, especially if the engineers are on a Green card

Not to mention they charged $45 a year for a service that included backups in their cloud should your save become a dead link. Imagine paying that amount for several years and when you need it they pull the rug.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250321050043/https://getpocket...

Consider this too next time you read about a billionaire supporting charity (besides their motives likely being tax breaks). For example Zuckerberg donated $75 million to a San Francisco hospital, which was plastered all over the news. Proportionally it's less than what the average person spends on charity a year.

Even Bill Gates who donated tens of billions still sits on an unimaginable amount of money. And unlike your grandpa leaving $10k to charity and getting a honorable mention plaque, Gates's donation buys him and his heirs significant influence over entire nations.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-philant...

I found several websites switched to 'press here until the timer runs out', probably they are doing the checks while the user is holding their mouse pressed, it would be trivial to bypass the long press by itself with automated mouse clickers.

You are confusing installed capacity with power used. The consumed power is going down since the early 2000s, but since the generated power by most renewables depends on the weather and season, more reserve capacity needs to be installed.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

Not having my browser nagging me to install Chrome every time I open search, maps or gmail?

>Sometimes, people want a more efficient way to read articles, rather than actually reading them.

Is it too much to assume that readers have had at least high school education and know about lead sentences and summary paragraphs?

But those were sold with the expectation to be used by Saudi Arabia for that purpose.

I feel that we are employed above of all to be available when it matters rather than to do a certain amount of work for the hours you are paid for. Compare it to a workshop with some tools, you buy a hammer not because you use it for 8 hours a day, but because when you need it, you can't do without it. If you go a day without needing to use the hammer, it doesn't mean that having the hammer in your shed is a waste of money.

If the company cared only about getting certain amount of work done in the time they paid for, they would hire an external. And continuing the analogy, it's usually more expensive in the long run to rent a tool even if you use it only a couple of times a month, as well as having to get used to unfamiliar equipment, having no records of how well the rental tool performed earlier.

Drum brakes are in the same spot and can last for the life of the vehicle.

Hub motors are in development for cars too, e.g.:

https://lightyear.one/articles/lightyear-and-elaphe-develop-...

WhatsApp has led to dozens of brutal deaths in India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings

There appear to be few good apps left that do not use a subscription model, and when they do, more often than not they charge at least €5/month, or a yearly €40 subscription. I remember around circa 2012, apps like Nova Launcher and Titanium backup were considered expensive, at €7 or so. Another example, I have a grandfathered subscription on Sleep Cycle for €2 a year, if you would take a new subscriptions it's €30 a year.

>Too bad you used the same phone number that you have on file with the university.

Regardless of the legitimate discussion on cheating, why would a lecturer have access to student phone numbers, either directly or after asking the student affairs office to link them to names? The further I got in the article, the more it seemed like Reddit-style creative writing.

I was hoping most people would be familiar with the exponential chessboard story, of which this is pretty much the inverse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem

>100% of all villages had erected strict and high barriers to quarantine their villages off from the rest of the China.

https://www.ifpri.org/blog/lockdowns-are-protecting-chinas-r...

You may not be locked inside your house but you can still be locked in your village, which may not have food either.

>just try things out without so much pressure.

I highly doubt you have any experience around promovendi

A similar thing is happening in inorganic chemistry. On https://materialsproject.org probably the majority of materials are 'discovered' computationally, by using DFT simulations to determine if and how stable any crystal structure would be. Using this database, AI can be used to find suitable materials for any application. [1]

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=materials%20project%20h...

If there is a wikipedia entry on the topic, use the interlanguage links to find the most commonly used words for that term in a foreign language.

>Works like precaution

To keep scientists of Chinese descent out of US academia, yes indeed.

What is a crime depends on local legislation. Being homosexual is a crime in many countries, hence there is still nothing wrong with 'criminals' performing forced labour?

SponsorBlock has a video highlight part option now, as more users start submitting it, you could use that to judge.

Have never used OF, but does it really have a good discovery algorithm? From the outside it appears that most new subscribers are from the links that are shared everywhere, similarly to Patreon.

>What's so "dignifying" about a job getting humiliated by entitled customers in retail or waitressing for minimum wage or breaking your body doing hard manual labor?

The fact that you can (at least in theory) quit, recover and find a better job, or get promoted. Unlike humiliating videos of yourself being on the internet forever.

It also reduces the amount of reposts, on Reddit, Instagram and Twitter it's full of 'forwards from grandma', which can disappoint users. But when users get served the original post by default, reposts will gain less traction, and in addition the original creator is more likely to gain followers from their old popular posts.

Mazda doesn't use turbos, yet manage to be competitive in the European market. Their engines, like the 2.0 SkyActiv are well liked by motoring journalists.

> The rigid slide-by-slide hierarchies slice and dice the evidence into arbitrary compartments

Is there something like a combination of PowerPoint and Prezi? Just one continous vertical slide where you just scroll down during a presentation.

Also, using a PDF (created in InDesign for example) is a great alternative to if you don't need videos or animations. Plus compatibility is way better.

The paid version of Vuze also allows streaming torrent videos http://www.vuze.com/features/playnow

So all in all, hardly a new concept, but this looks really convenient to use.